Re: Are tanru really metaphors?

[Logical Language Group <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET>]

>>Another solution would be prefix all your utterances with {pe'a}, thus
>>telling listeners to interpret what follows figuratively.
>>
>>
>>    pe'a      PEhA  start figurative
>>                      start figurative (non-literal) speech/text
>>
>>    po'a      POhA  end figurative
>>                      end figurative (non-literal) speech/text

Indeed, Athelstan discussed keenings specifically in an early JL.  I do not
know whether he mentione dit in the discussion, but at that point we
certainly agreed that the logical way to deal with all poetry of a genre
(as for example skaldic poetry which uses kennings) would be to define a
whole set of conventions, which in this case would include the
figurativeness of tanru, and the "title" might include either the
set of conventions, or a reference thereto  ("according to rules la skaldik")
which would enable the entire text to be treated as following these variant
semantic rules rather than the default lojbanic ones.

Note that we already have something like this in terms of the "story-time"
tense convention, which differs from non-story-time tense usages.  What
has never been done is to explicitly mark variant semantics, though it was
envisions from very early on.

I may rummage around and see if I can find the article Athelstan wrote.
I have long intended to put old JLs on line, but it is something I have
bnever gotten around to yet %^)

lojbab
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